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Memoir writing has grown commonplace. With the advent of Blogspot and the Upload Photo option on Facebook to capture minutiae, the actual art of creating a narrative out of the significant, and not-so, events in a life gets undervalued and ignored.

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The unnamed protagonist of J. A. Tylers A Shiny, Unused Heart reaches the endpoint of his chosen demise in the novellas opening sentence: Everything had gone to burning, blood-colored skies, and he leapt or jumped, danced or waltzed, carried himself off the building ledge, eighty-seven stories up.

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In the introduction to Something Urgent I Have to Say to You, a new critical biography of William Carlos Williams, Herbert Leibowitz writes, What most distinguished Williams was his drive to turn himself into a masterful American poet.

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We the Animals is well-crafted like a great martini, coming in smooth with a potent punch. The semi-autobiographical portrait of three young brothers, raised by tragically young parents in an upstate blue-collar town, emerges in a compact 128 pages.

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Muumuu House, purveyor of relevant, artful, interesting literature, has published a
book of poetry composed of blog posts by Megan Boyle. This work is terrifyingly open,
daringly honest, and elegantly innovative in its sparse use of words.

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i>The Coffin Factory is a new literary magazine. Its first issue published new stories, essays, and poetry by Joyce Carol Oates, Bonnie Nadzam, Bernard Quiriny, John Reed and Fred Reynolds, and old stories by Milan Kundera and José Saramago, among others. I met Randy Rosenthal and Laura Isaacman, the magazines editors, in Park Slopes Tea Lounge.